How to Deal with Sighted Persons

[ysabetwordsmith]

Advice for blind folks dealing with sighted ones.  Don't read it with your mouth full, or in areas requiring quiet.

I have actually had to explain  some of this stuff.  The visual fixation in particular -- I once spent half a day translating the basics of magic from visual to audio terms for an audio-oriented friend.  My ability to navigate in near or total darkness is enough to freak people out.  And I'm not even actually blind, just have crummy enough vision that I've compensated by using my other senses more than average.

And the tone, oh my gods, the tone.  *cackle*  That's how Rai sounds snarking at the able citizens.

Comments

[raze]

This is FANTASTIC, oh my god.

[gehayi]

This is BRILLIANT.

[cmcmck]

Love it! :o)

The comments about not seeing well at night strike home particularly as although I'm sighted, my night sight is so poor that I'm almost night blind and was once helped back to halls of residence at uni after dark during a power cut by a blind from birth friend which brought home, well, a lot, really.

I've seen 'how to deal with cis people' done on very much the same basis.

[thnidu]

Somewhere in the DC-verse is a Green Lantern Corps story -- presented, as I recall, as told to one of the "supervisor" race by the human(ish) female GL involved -- about a totally sightless species she encountered. (Planet has superheavy cloud cover, no light at all.) Through the usual procedure she finds a candidate GL there. But ... "lantern"? "Green"? These would be meaningless. So, what to do?

Well, she asked the candidate if there's a note he finds especially beautiful. He told her he's always especially liked D# (let's say, I don't remember). So his "green lantern" rhyme refers to the note of the D-sharp bell, and that's what his artifact is.

The supervisor's parting comment is "I suspect that eventually he saw the light." In the last panel we see the female GL relaxing in a bath, all properly covered with suds of course, suddenly thinking in shock, "I can't believe it! I think ____ actually made a JOKE!"

Wow!

[ysabetwordsmith]

That is so awesome. Thank you for sharing.

[mdlbear]

This is indeed wonderful.

[fionnulaharp]

Lovely. I learned energy work from a friend who was visually challenged: she was able to explain the concepts in terms of pitch and tone so that I could understand it -- much more so than other folks who just explained things in terms of visualization.

The only problem was when I went to her house to play instruments -- I needed the lights on to see the harp and she would always forget to turn them on!

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Wonderful!

[je-reviens.livejournal.com]

/amused

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

You too with the navigate in the dark? Heh.